Sir Samuel Rolle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

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 between 1640 and 1647. He supported the parliamentary

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 side in the English Civil War

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Rolle was the son of Robert Rolle (d. 1633) of Heanton Punchardon

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, Devon

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 (a scion of the family of Rolle of Stevenstone) and his wife Joan Hele, daughter of Thomas Hele of Fleet Devon. In 1634, he and his brother Henry Rolle, and their brother-in-law Hugh Fortescue purchased an estate at Bawdrip

Bawdrip

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In April 1640, Rolle was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Callington

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 in the Short Parliament

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. In 1641 he was elected MP for Devon

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 in the Long Parliament

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 where he remained until his death in 1647.

Rolle married Margaret Wise, daughter of Sir Thomas Wise

Thomas Wise

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. Rolle was the brother of John Rolle, and of Henry Rolle

Henry Rolle

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, chief justice of the King's Bench

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 for part of the Commonwealth period.